Unique learning experiences include:
- a 2nd half-day of Pediatric Neurology continuity clinic during the Pediatrics PGY2 year and
- a month-long Neurology boot camp elective just before starting the PGY3 year.
- Extremely close and cooperative relationships between the Child Neurology, Pediatrics, and Adult Neurology training programs
- Rapidly expanding cohort of residents, faculty, and nurse practitioners that has maintained its sense of “family”
- Most of the Adult Neurology rotations occur during the PGY3 year, allowing focus on Pediatric Neurology during the PGY4 and 5 years, but starting the PGY3 year with Pediatric Neurology rotations
- Joint teaching conferences with Neonatology, Pediatric Critical Care, Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Genetics, and Neuroradiology.
- Resident mentoring program; starting PGY1 year
Focus on developing residents as teachers
- For example, our residents teach each other in a self-designed neuroanatomy series. They are prepped for and given feedback about these and other talks.
- Division-wide meetings for faculty and residents are dedicated to educational methods
- Our residents have participated in CoMET(Community of Medical Educators in Training), a program designed for residents and fellows aiming to become the next generation of clinician-educators.
Global health electives are offered in both pediatric and pediatric neurology residency programs, with interested faculty to assist with mentoring. Additionally, Global REACH is a university organization which facilitates worldwide clinical, educational and research collaborations.
Wide opportunities in research and QI
- The University of Michigan prides itself in lacking barriers between groups, and our residents have done projects with Adult Neurology, Sleep Medicine, Genetics, Psychiatry, Neurosurgery, and , as well as basic science labs
- We have a world-famous pediatric health service research program, CHEAR.
- Most residents present a project at a national meeting and many have won local and national research awards.
- Strong emphasis on graded autonomy and responsibility as residents advance and on continuity of care, with residents following their own patients from their PGY2 year onward.
Clinical setting
Interior of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
- C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital opened in 2011.
- 12-story inpatient wing and a 9-story outpatient wing
- 1.1 million square feet
- 342 beds, with busy Pediatric, Neonatal, and Pediatric Cardiothoracic ICU’s, ED, and inpatient psychiatric unit.
- Every room in the hospital can support long-term EEG monitoring
- Attached to the adult hospital, balancing function as an independent unit with easy access to Adult Neurology conferences and to Pediatric Neurology continuity clinics during the adult year
- Take a look at Mott and the rest of the medical campus!
- We’re on the top floor; great views!
